IMD launched four new weather radars and many other initiatives to increase forecasting

New Delhi: The center on the 147th Foundation Day of the Indian Meteorology Department (IMD) on Friday launched the Operation of the New Doppler weather radar, respectively in Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, and Leh, to further improve the weather forecast system in this city / region.
It was also announced to use “Drone-based Observation Technology” in a great way in the future to strengthen local estimates throughout the country.
In addition, the department met on this occasion also launched several other initiatives including special websites for flight weather services, geospatial services for bad weather monitoring & forecasting to allow users to make better decision making, climate danger, and “mobile crowdsourcing applications, and “Crowdsourcing” – public observation – for different weather services.
With the launch of four new Doppler weather radars (DWR), the number of radars in the country reached 33.
IMD had a plan to increase this to 90 to cover the entire country under DWR forecasting for Getter forecasting Ladakh.
Radar in Leh, installed at the highest height in India, will provide important information by detecting a storm, Cu Rah heavy rain, snow and thus helped in monitoring severe weather in the Ladakh area.
Radar in Ayanagar in Delhi will oversee the atmospheric phenomenon to a radial distance of 100 km around the site and improve the IMD weather monitoring skills for the entire NCR region.
“The double polarization technology used in this radar will provide a better monitoring of rainfall and hydrometeor classification by distinguishing between rain, snow, and hail.
It will also help in monitoring, present, and short distance forecasting,” said the department met.
Launching this radar-radar operation in virtual mode, Bumi Sciences Minister Jitendra Singh said the government is committed to making world-class organizational IMD for better service delivery, allowing ordinary people to make wise decisions and climate-smart.
Web-GIS Based on Climate Hazards & Indian Atlas Vulnerability for Thirteen Most Dangerous Meteorology events, launched on Friday, provides information about nine types of climate hazards, namely.
The hazard, extreme rainfall, lightening, dust storm, rainstorms, fog, drought, cyclone, and storm in terms of their spatial distribution of the average number of days of events or possible extreme values ​​and vulnerability indices that are normalized on the scale .
“Atlas also provides climate vulnerability information at the district level at five types of hazards, namely cold waves, heat waves, floods, lightning, and snow.
District-district has been categorized as very high, high, medium, and low vulnerability for each climate danger .
Atlas provides a pie chart representing the percentage of the district and the population covered by catastrophic weather events in various categories of vulnerability, “the department said in a statement met.
ATLA dangers and vulnerabilities can be used as a reference point to publish impact-based predictions with respect to different weather hazards.
It can also be used as a guide in planning socio-economic activities and in preventing and reducing disasters.
On the other hand, Web-GIS applications in weather services will allow forecasting, users and shareholders to build products that are more interactive and informative.
This will be available online in the near real time mode.
“This integration allows all information in the GIS database for decision making and analysis,” said IMD.